Kim braced herself
against the side of the plane and forced down what was left of the
grilled chicken salad she had for lunch. That bird seemed to want to
take flight again. She realized if the plane bounced and tilted a
few more times it just might get that chance. Ron had had to clean
up Rufus after the first one. Somehow Rufus had found a little toy
umbrella. Every time he walked near Kim he would put it up. Somehow
Kim remembered that poor clown at the fair. She gasped as the plane
hit another air pocket. It felt like she was weightless for a few
seconds until the floor of the plane came back to smack her on the
bottom. A slight "urp" followed by an "ugh" told her that
Ron was having the same problem. She saw him stumble to the small
bath located in the rear of the plane. The plane hit another pocket
and she raced for the bathroom. They both hit the door at the same
time. Ron pulled back. "Ladies first." Kim patted his cheek
then her cheeks pouched out and she dove for the bath. Ron tried to
tune out the noise coming from the room. Kim came back out quickly.
"your turn". Ron readily complied with her suggestion.

The co-pilot crawled
out of the cockpit into the cargo area were Team Possible was
sitting. Seeing the two teens made him think. "Well at least they
are just normal folks:" The plane hit another air pocket and he had
to grab onto on the struts inside the plane.

"Miss Possible, we
are approaching your drop zone."

Kim stood and gave him
thumbs up. She turned and pulled Ron to his feet, his paraglide
chute already strapped to his back. He reached over and checked the
straps to Kim's chute. He motioned for her to spin around so he
could finish checking her chute. She repeated the procedure for him.
A light started to blink beside the door. Ron pulled open the door
and pushed it to the side. Kim grabbed him by his straps and gave
him a slow kiss on the lips.

"Ugh!" They both
pulled back a little. "Definitely worse than morning breath."

The light glowed
steadily and the two teens dove into the raging darkness.

They fell through the
gusts of wind and rain. The two heroes were on a date when the
Kimmunicator beeped. Dementor was still trying to build some super
weapon that was supposed to get it power from storms. Just like the
storm they were falling through. Lighting flashed above them as they
fell into the darkness. Kim signaled to Ron to pull his ripcord at
the same as she did. The paragliding chute snapped open and Ron took
the lead in soaring toward their landing zone, which was a number of
miles ahead of them.

The wind and rain
pummeled them as they drifted down, their mission clothes already
soaked.

"Ah Kim remind me
again why we are jumping in the middle of a storm"

Kim smiled a bit in the
darkness. Her BFBF had really been Ron Steppupable lately but he had
yet to lose his Ronness, something she hoped he never would.

"I told you Ron,
Dementor is using the storm for his machine and we have to stop him
now. Besides he would not think that even we aren't crazy enough
to jump into a storm"

The two fell for a few
more seconds, their winged jumpsuits allowing them to glide toward
Dementor's lair.

The rain soaked their
jumpsuits. They gave little protection to the pouring rain and
chilling wind. A strong downburst hit Ron's chute and he turned
violently to regain control.

"RON LOOK OUT!"

Kim pulled hard on her
steering toggles to avoid running into Ron. The wind direction
changed suddenly and the temperature of the air grew warm. Kim's
stomach lurched again as she felt as if she were standing in some
super speed elevator heading for the top of a building.

Ron lost sight of Kim
as she turned one way and he turned the other. The temperature of
the air grew colder as the downdraft pushed him toward the ground.
He pulled on his toggles again. He was caught in a microburst. His
chute collapsed as another burst of air from above pushed all the air
out of it. The winds slung him side to side, the near useless chute
catching a gust of air only to have the downburst collapse the chute
again. Ron glanced down. A flash of lightening illuminated trees
rushing up toward him. He put all of his weight on one of the
toggles trying to get out of the downburst. He had just enough time
to regain control of his chute as he looked up to see a copse of
trees coming straight at him.

"This is SO going to
hurt." He thought as the trees loomed before him. Sharp pain
knifed through him as he hit the outer braches. He cracked his eyes
to see the trunk of the tree in front of him. Then everything went
black.

Kim started to feel
light headed and very cold. Flashes of lighting lit the clouds below
her as she continued to gain altitude. Grabbing the Kimmunicator she
pressed the call button.

"Kim,What's wrong?"

Kim tried to talk but
could not get air. Wade rapidly typed on his console.

"Kim, you are caught
in an updraft. I am scanning you at 28,000 feet. You need….."

The Kimmunicator
slipped from her near frozen fingers and disappeared into the
darkness. Kim grabbed for the steering toggles and trying to guide
herself back to the ground. Sharp gust of wind cut into her. Her
jumpsuit started to crackle as it froze in the extreme temperature.
A blast of wind drove her into another part of the cloud; hailstones
small and large started to pelt her. Kim cried out as they beat
against her body. She failed for the control toggles again and made
a hard turn.

The hail stopped, but
the temperature continued to drop. Her eye became heavy, she felt
herself nodding off. In one last thought she pulled a final time on
one of the control toggles. It moved partially and jammed, frozen in
place.

Her shivering lips
cracked open, her skin becoming gray. "Ron where are you?"

Ron opened his eyes.
Flashes of lighting illuminated the area as he glanced around. The
paragliding chute lay snarled in the top of a tree. Pain lanced
through his leg as he glanced down. His leg hung at an unnatural
angle. He wiped his face with his hand and noticed it came back
sticky. Looking at his hand in the darkness he could see it was
covered in something black. A flash of lighting illuminated the
blood on his hand. Gingerly, he moved his hand across his face.
Pain shot across his face when he touched his nose.

'Great, a broken leg
and a broken nose…. KP!'

Ron jerked around
looking for Kim. The rain still poured down and he could not see her
anywhere. Getting out of the tree would be the first thing he would
have to do. Raising his uninjured leg, he pulled a length of rope
from the pocket. Rufus popped out of the other pocket rubbing his
head.

"Rufus, think you can
take the end of the rope up to that limb and tie it off?"

"u huh u huh" Rufus
nodded and gripped the end of the rope in his teeth. He climbed up
the shroud lines to the limb above Ron's head and tied it off.
Sliding back down the rope he landed on Ron's shoulder. Ron fitted
the rope into his harness belt and released the straps to the chute.
Rufus clung to his shoulder and they rappelled down to the ground.
His leg hit the ground causes waves of pain to lance through him.
The ground rushed to his face and blackness came over his again.

Kim shivered as the
chute settled in its slow spiral. Movement was now impossible as her
suit was frozen solid. She had wrapped her arms around herself to
keep warm.

"Well, princess,
looks like you got yourself frozen again just like the time we had
that little fight over that DVD for your buffoon."

Kim's eyes popped
open. Shego appeared flying along side of her on her flying board.

"H..h..heess not a
buffoon. He's my..my.. boyfriend."

Shego snorted. "Oh
yeah, just like the one who melted?"

Kim's eyes flared as
she flailed at the specter.

"Ohhh is the little
princess getting mad? Tell me Kimmie, the buffoon can't melt, so
how are you going to get rid of him? Are you just going to do it
privately one night or do it with style and in front of the whole
school? Why don't you just crush his spirit? You were so good at
that. He's worthless anyhow."

Kim a piece of ice off
her suit and threw it at Shego.

"He's not
worthless. He is the best friend I ever had. He was the one that
saved me the night we beat both of you."

"Yeah, I was
really wondering about Drakken's plan, but it almost worked. We
crushed your spirit just like you almost crushed his."

Kim shut her eyes and
turned her head.

"That's right
Kimmie. The one who you thought didn't make a statement. The one
you though annoying. The one you tossed aside put your feelings and
your hopes in front of his. Even when we almost caused you to
disappear, he was there saving your butt as you tossed him aside."

Kim hung her head.

"That's right
pumpkin, when things don't go your way. Just give up. You don't
deserve anyone like him. He may be plain, he may be clumsy, but he
has a heart big enough to pull someone into. Even I could see that.
So just hang there pumpkin, just freeze to death. He will find
someone who deserves him."

Kim eyes popped open
again as Shego disappeared into the clouds. As Shego vanished she
turned around and blew a kiss. "I just might take a try at him
myself."

Kim's arm came up and
grabbed the steering toggles. Looking down she could see she had
soared out of the worst part of the storm and was spiraling down over
the area that she hoped was their drop zone but she could not see it.
She closed her eyes. 'Ron, help me.'

"KP!"

Kim's eyes sprang
open. Ron was floating down next to her.

"Ron, help."

Ron's figure spiraled
back into the center of the storm. His figure was silhouetted
against the clouds.

"Ron where are you
going, that's the wrong way."

"Come on KP. Trust
me. I will always have your back. I trust you. Please just trust
me now."

Kim struggled to steer
her parachute to follow Ron. As she entered the clouds the rain and
winds started again. Hail pelted her and she felt the temperature
drop again. She struggled to stay awake and keep thinking but she
was so cold.

Ron rolled over. The
rain was still coming down. His cell phone beeped... Rufus pulled
it from his pocket and placed it in his hand. The screen came on and
Wade's concerned face appeared.

"Ron! Are you okay?
I lost track of both of you for a moment."

"Wade, I'm hurt,
but I don't care, scan for KP. I can't find her."

"Ron, that's what I
need to tell you. Apparently my scanners showed the two of you got
separated when you were caught in a downdraft."

"I know that Wade.
Just help me find KP."

"Ron, Kim was caught
in an updraft. The last signal I had from the Kimmunicator she was
nearly 30,000 feet up."

Ron sat up. "But at
that height there is little oxygen and it's like freezing and what
do you mean last signal."

Wade bowed his head.
"Ron, I was recording the signals when it appeared she dropped the
Kimmunicator. The recorded temperature was 20 below zero. The
oxygen level was just about what she experienced when she climbed
Everest."

"What can you do?
What can I do?"

Wade sat back and
tapped at his computer. "I am scanning for her chip. I got her.
She seems to be moving back and forth like she is circling. Her life
signs are barely readable. You need to send up a signal of some
type."

Kim could barely feel
her fingers as she tried to pull on the steering toggles. Her chute
had gone back into the circling motion as before. The trip through
the storm wall covered her in more ice and the paraglider was not
responding well. She could see ice encrusting the shroud lines.
Pulling on the control handles didn't help much. She just didn't
have the strength to control it anymore. The cold sapped her
strength; the air forced her mind to struggle to think.

"POSSIBLE!"

Kim opened her eyes.
"MR. Barkin?"

"YES, Possible. It's
me. Looks like I need to start keeping a watch over you instead of
Stoppable."

"HUH?" Kim mumbled

"That's right
Possible. It seems you have had a great influence on Stoppable. He
is doing better in school. And because he wanted to impress you, the
Middleton Maddogs have gotten the best running back the school has
seen in a decade. I can tell it went both ways. You aren't so
over achieving. You seem to have learned to slow down a little and
appreciate something special. Now look at you now, you are not even
trying are you? No, you seem to be feeling sorry for yourself. When
it came to you, did Stoppable ever quit? No, and now Stoppable needs
you and you are giving up."

Kim raised her head.
"Ron needs me?"

"Yeah Possible, he
does. He had always needed you. But you were too stuck in yourself
to see it were you. You locked him in the closet for a weekend
because you were all gaga over Mankey. He needs you to keep him
moving, to keep improving himself. Life is tough; it doesn't give
you a break. Now quit feeling sorry for yourself and move! Get back
to Stoppable! If you can't handle this situation then I guess the
Mad Dogs need a new head cheerleader, Rockwaller is next in line, so
I guess she gets the job. Too bad, we could have taken the regionals
again."

Kim growled as Barkin
disappeared into the clouds. Her numb hands grabbed the controls
again as her eyes scanned the ground. The entire landscape was dark.
Ron was down there somewhere and she needed to get to him. Her
goggles started to freeze over as her tear streamed down and ran
across the lenses. Then below her, a dim light appeared. She
steered toward the light.

Ron crawled to the
middle of the meadow. Rain continued to soak him. The wind whipped
at the grass as he tried to look up. The flashes of lighting
illuminated the clouds from the inside. A bolt of lighting struck a
tree on the edge of the meadow and blew it to pieces. The rain
drowned out the flaming wood in seconds.

Ron closed his eyes.
His body was a wall pain. His leg shot spikes of pain up his body.
Groaning he lay back and closed his eyes. He was failing Kim.
Somehow he had to help Kim but he was just too stupid to know what to
do. His mind wandered as he fought off the chill of the air. He
thought of Kim and the Dance, Kim at Lake Middleton. Then his
thoughts went to the time they visited that lighthouse in North
Carolina that had been moved to save it. The Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse was famous for many things but the one thing it had done
was save lives. Over the years its light had saved many lives. Ron
thought of the light spearing through the night. What he really
needed was a light, but his flashlight had been smashed in the
landing and everything around him was soaked. He could not start a
fire.

'Light' He thought
'I really need a light.'

Darkness overcame his
mind and he laid his head back. A blue glow started to cover his
body. The glow grew brighter, until a beam of blue light shot
straight up in the air.

Kim knew she had
stopped shivering. That was a very bad sign. Her clothes were
almost frozen solid. They crunched each time she tried to move. She
could breathe again so she must be at a lower altitude. The one lens
to her goggles was cracked where it had been hit by a hailstone. She
did not want to think what she looked like.

Her chute was still in
its slow spiral. The hail had stopped and she seemed to be lower in
the clouds. Kim glanced at the shroud lines and noticed that they
were free of ice now. She was so cold and her head hurt. A wind
gust pushed her to the side.

"Kimberly?"

"Nana?"

Kim lifted her eyes and
saw Nana floating next to her. 'Okay, now this has gotten really
freaky."

"Kimberly, you need
to get control of yourself. What have I told you about going out in
the midriff shirt?"

"Nana, I don't wear
that anymore."

Nana shook her head.
"I told you that it was too cold for that. You need a sweater on
young lady."

Kim grinned a little.
"Well Nana, I didn't quite have time to pack when Ron and I got
the call."

Nana's face changed.
"Kimberly, I got into trouble one time on a mission. I got soaking
wet and got so cold I could barely think. But I knew your
grandfather was waiting for me. Ronald is waiting for you. Just
remember Kim, together you can stay warm. Let your love for each
other reach out. Much like your grandfather reached out to me that
night. He risked his life to light my way. He always was my guiding
light. Ronald is yours. Let him lead, trust him, he will guide
you."

Nana floated off and
disappeared.

"Nana!"

Kim reached out toward
the disappearing scepter when a bolt of lightening passed close
enough that her body convulsed.

She opened her eyes to
see a dim blue light coming from below. Ron's chute appeared out
of the clouds.

"KP, Come on I know
the way."

Kim pulled on her
controls toggles to follow when another blot of lighting hit his
chute. Ron's chute erupted into flames as he screamed. He fell as
his chute disintegrated.

"Ron!"

Kim used the last bit
of her strength to pull on her control toggles and put her chute into
a dive. Her eyes never lost sight of his chute as it disappeared
into the dim blue light below her. She passed through the clouds and
saw an open meadow below her. The flaming mass of what had been his
chute burned in the middle. She guided her chute to the spot as the
flames went out. Bracing for impact she prepared to land. Ice fell
from her clothes and body as she hit the ground. Before she blacked
out she could see Ron lying on the ground with his head turned to
her. Even in the darkness of the night, she caught sight of his
glittering brown eyes.

Ron opened his eyes to
see Kim's chute above him. He sat up in time to see her hit the
ground. Her body fell forward and slammed to the ground, arms and
legs spilled out across the grass. Her chute collapsed onto the
ground beyond her.

"KP!"

Ron crawled over to her
and rolled her over. He was shocked at what he saw. Her clothes
were covered in ice that was just starting to melt. One of the
lenses to her goggles was cracked. Her face was ashen and parts
glistened in frostbite. Her lips were blue and she was not
breathing. Ron released her canopy and took her pulse, it was weak
but there.

Ron laid Kim on her
back, tilted her head back and began breathing for her. Each time he
placed his mouth on hers if was like kissing a block of ice. He kept
forcing breath after breath into her lungs. Pain shot up his leg and
back each time he knelt over her to breathe, but he kept at it.

He gasped for breath,
his head spinning. He stopped for a moment and placed his cheek over
her mouth. A warm trickle of air passed over it. She was breathing
on her own. Tears spilled from Ron's eyes. She was still in
danger he had to warm her up. Grabbing her by her chute harness he
pulled her under one of the cedar trees that lined the meadow. It
would give them some shelter.

Ron pulled out his
phone and started it.

Wade's face appeared
instantly.

"Wade, we need help
and right now. KP is in bad shape and I am not so hot myself."

Wade started typing on
his keyboard.

"Ron, the storm is
keeping everything grounded right now. The plane you jumped from
barely made it back. We won't be able to get to you for……"

Ron's phone went
dead. Ron slapped it closed, and tossed it to the ground.

"Oh, mannn, I forgot
to charge the thing. Now what do I do?"

He looked over at Kim
she did not look any better.

Ron beat himself on his
head. "Okay Ron, now is the time to step up and not be just a
sidekick. Kim needs you now think, think, think. What did they say
in the GJ training when I was playing video games."

Kim moaned and moved a
little.

Ron grabbed his pack
and pulled some of the equipment until he found what he was looking
for. He glanced out from under the tree and noticed that the rain
had changed to freezing rain. He started to shiver himself. He
pulled two emergency space blankets out along with a couple of
chemical heating pads. He made a pad of needles and small soft
branches and laid one of the blankets on top. He pulled Kim's
soaked jumpsuit off and tossed it aside. Her mission clothes under it
were still soaking wet. Ron cracked the chemical pads and they
started to heat up. Pulling Kim next to himself and putting the heat
pads under them he set the other space blanket on top of them.
Wrapping his arm around her he willed the warmth from his body into
hers. Kim started to shiver and her teeth started to chatter. Then
one leg moved, then an arm, subconsciously she snuggled closer to
him. Ron held her closer as exhaustion overcame him.

Kim felt warmth. She
moved her legs and winced at the sharp stabbing pain. She opened her
eyes to see an IV bag along with a heart monitor. A soft snoring
noise came from her right. She turned her head to see Ron with his
head on her bed. His hand wrapped around hers. A smile crossed her
face as she lifted her left hand and played with the soft locks of
blonde hair. Ron snorted and lifted his head to see two luminous
green eyes staring back at him.

"KP!"

Ron tried to get up but
winced.

"Kimmie, Kimmie-cub!"

Kim twisted her eyes
the other way to see her parents standing there beside her bed.
Apparently they had been asleep too. Her father had at least a day's
growth of beard and her mom was still in scrubs.

"KP."

Ron's soft voice near
her ear caused her to turn her head back to her BFBF. His face had a
number of scratches along with a swollen nose and a black eye.

"Ron, what happened
to you?"

He sat back rubbing the
back of his neck with his arm.

"Well, Kim, see, it's
like this, I …uh….."

Mrs. P touched her arm
and Kim turned her head toward her.

"What Ron is trying
to say is that he got caught in a downdraft after you got caught in
the updraft. The downdraft slammed him into a group of trees. He
told me that he preferred to kiss you than to kiss bark again."

Kim giggled and glanced
over at her blushing boyfriend when her mother continued.

"You should be proud
of him, somehow he attracted you to where he was. When you landed,
he got you under cover and started to warm you up. He did this with
three cracked ribs, one broken leg and a strained back. He used so
much of the warmth of the heat pads and his own warmth that he was
going into hypothermia when they found you."

Kim was watching Ron
the entire time her mother spoke. Her eyes never left his as her and
turned a grasped his tightly.

Mrs. P smiled at her
daughter as she finished.

"Now you young lady,
have some frostbite on your fingers and toes but nothing serious.
There are some places on your face also but nothing that will not
heal. Aside from the bruises and hypothermia you will be okay."

Kim just nodded but her
eyes never left Ron's.

Anne grabbed James by
the arm and led him from the room. Ron's parents stood and joined
them as they left the room. James had stayed with Ron almost as much
as he had Kim until Ron had woken up. Anne watched as her husband
backed out of the room. She had told one of the nurses that to say
that James thought highly of Ron would be like saying that it gets
cold in Antarctica.

Ron gave Kim a little
smile. "How's my little Kimcicle?"

"Much better now that
my boy friend/best friend saved my life again, at the cost of extreme
pain to himself."

Ron stood up and leaned
over her and gave her a little kiss on the forehead.

Ladies and Gentlemen
this was a little fic I have been planning for sometime. I got the
idea of the updraft from tusconcoyote. I knew then that I needed to
use an idea from a story from a very fine author by the name of
cyberwraith9. I asked cyberwraith if I could use the overall idea of
the story and Cyber agreed. I would like to thank Cyberwraith for
the consideration. The name of the story was "Follow me Home."
Please read it. It is one of the finest pieces of KP fanfiction I
have read. Thanks to my friend tusconcoyote for the great idea for
the story.

This weekend means a
great deal to me. It was one year ago that I underwent my heart
bypass surgery. All of you were so supportive of me in your notes
here and over a DA. It really made a difference to me. Now one year
later I am in the best health that I have ever been in. I would like
to thank all of you for everything that you did during this very
difficult time of my life.

This story is dedicated
to all of you,

Thanks everyone.

I owe each and every
one of you more than you can ever imagine. May God bless you and
yours.

This one is written for you all to enjoy. Reviews would be appreciated but your enjoyment means more to me.

This is the Captain
Right Hand Salute
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